falonso81 wrote: ↑18 Jul 2020, 23:52
LM10 wrote: ↑18 Jul 2020, 23:41
Already any ideas what that mysterious puff of smoke coming out of Mercedes powered cars might be? Significant power advantage in party mode combined with smoke. That was enough to be highly suspicious not so long ago. I would be surprised if none of the teams would do anything to clear that up.
Nobody seems to be giving a f@ck about it. Everybody noticed the Ferraris smoking 2 years ago and we all know how that went. I guess even if Mercedes is 5 seconds ahead of everyone, nobody will raise an eyebrow because it will be ingenious and innovative.
Last year FIA took a couple of Ferrari engines (or part of them both from Ferrari and one of their client) and an Honda one, but no investigation at all was ever made since 2014 to the Mercedes engine.
It seems like Mercedes is untouchable from the FIA point of view.
Another example was this one:
https://translate.google.it/translate?h ... 3196698%2F
It's easier to win if your men wrote the rules, you start some years in advance and then when other teams do something in the gray area, the FIA steps in to stop them, but when you do the same (FRICS, oil burning) the FIA steps in only when all the other teams have started doing the same.